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Najadaceae

Water-nymph or Naiad Family. Comprised of 1 genera and about 40 species. Members are typically annual, rarely perennial, herbs that are not rhizomatous and do not have turions.

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Nymph

Sexually immature form usually similar to the adult and found in such insects as grasshoppers and cockroaches, which have incomplete, or hemimetabolic, metamorphosis.
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